Atlas of Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy

A survey of the existing knowledge written for the clinician who needs to know about biological treatments in psychiatry. The material covers basic aspects related to the mechanisms of drug action (including the spectrum of potential pharmacological and biological treatments); treatment strategies regarding the main psychiatric diagnostic entities; and interactions, mainly pharmokinetic, between drugs, other substances, and the aforementioned biological treatments. Shiloh (psychiatric medicine, Tel-Aviv U., Israel), Nutt (psychopharmacology, U. of Bristol, UK), and Wiezman (psychiatry, Tel- Aviv U., Israel) have purposely left out information which they view as insufficiently grounded. Distributed by Blackwell Science, Inc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This exceptional book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of action involved in psychiatric pharmacotherapy. State-of-the-art information is presented through highly imaginative double page spreads, with each image facing a page of accompanying text. The illustration clarifies and simplifies the complex interactions between psychiatric medications and neural or cellular events. Ranging from the basic aspects of drug action, the book covers the different classes of drugs, abused substances, drug interactions and treatment strategies, including all the latest data available and the relevance of the data to clinical practice.